Getting around in Delhi

If you don't want to walk.... which might a be a bit risky, since the sidewalks are full of holes, sleepers, cows and migrant merchants, you have the choice of taking buses, bicycle rikshaws, auto rikschaws and the metro, which seems to grow by the day.

If you are able to agree about the price, taking an autorikschaw or for short distances a bicycle rikschaw is the most pleasant way of transport if you are a hero and can get used to their way of driving like this chap, who works and talks on his phone in the roaring traffic

The buses bear an sign telling you that they run on clean fuel. In the beginning i thought that must be a joke, because the buses look like they would fall apart the next moment. However, all the rikschaws and the buses in Delhi run on compressed natural gas, which does not make the air clean, but at least more breathable like in other big cities like ahmedabad.

 

This guy is repairing his cycle rikschaw on the side of the road. There are lots of complaints in the guide books about rikschaw drivers. They ask prices, which are too high, they don't go to the right places, but leave you at shops and false information officies and afterwards they charge commision. I was never brought to a shop or the wrong place. I just told them that i would not pay him if he stops at a shop. And some of the guys were even good guides, entertaining and fantastic drivers